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[foreverflash]

Originally Posted by Neilikki

Those are neither fakes, nor any "official" producer certified collector's editions. They are merely the effect of the initiative the polish publisher (which is in this case cenega) of those games made to collect those four series in one pretty package each with some added bonus (mainly mini guides or some dvd's).

The contents are as follows:

The World of Hitman:

-1DVD with the first three parts of the series
-1DVD with Hitman Blood Money
-A guide dedicated to all of the games in the series
-1CD with bonus contents (wallpapers, trailers etc.)
-1DVD with "the making of" materials
-I think there are also instruction booklets for each game

The World of Prince of Persia:

-3DVD's with the whole Prince of Persia trilogy (Sands of Time, Warrior Within, The Two Thrones)
-instruction booklets
-1CD with bonus content similiar to what Hitman offers (wallpapers etc.)
-1CD with the soundtrack
-A guide to the whole trilogy (over 300p.)

The World of Splinter Cell:

-3DVD's with the original SC trilogy (Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory)
-1CD with smiliar bonus content to previous editions
-instruction booklets
-the guide

The World of Myst:

-1DVD with the first three Myst's
-1DVD with Myst IV
-1DVD with Myst V
-1DVD with URU
-1CD with bonus content
-1CD with the music
-4 instructions booklets for each game
-the guide

The boxes look really cool and aesthetic and are closed with magnets, but the contents itself are in my opinion not worth it, especially since everything will be in polish. It's good as a starter pack for someone who want to buy the whole series all at once without searching too much, but aside from that? I don't know. Unless of course you are a big fan of one of those series and need to collect absolutely everything there is. But anyway, those things premiered about 4 years ago, i thought they are sold out by now?

Interesting Neil. Thanks for the information! We were all a bit unsure of these editions. Good to know they're not fakes!


@Gwal:
I collect old, big box PC games too my friend. Did you see my Collection/intro thread here? I show a picture w/ most of my most special/rare big box PC games. The thing about the older PC packages, is they made them so special and collectible, but they were really never "meant" to be that way, because most of them were NOT collector or limited editions by design (but ended up being very limited due to low production) and to find one mint these days is extremely rare because of aging/decay and the fact that MOST people opened and used the games back then. That last PC big box you just got looks sweet man! What game is that? never heard of it. I collect big box PC for ONLY the biggest titles (Elder scrolls, Fallout, Deus Ex, and a few others).

[Gwal]

Hey Neilikki,

Thank you very much for enlightening me/us about those "CEs"!

In fact although they were released in 2006 merlin-multimedia.pl seems to still have the Prince of Persia one.

And i agree i won't have much interest in buying this except for the nice looking box. I can't speak polish... So i'll pass on this.




@Foreverflash: I did look at your collection and see you big boxed pc games. Was amazed by the Fallout boxes!

Alice and Deus Ex are wonderful too, just 2 days ago i saw a deus ex big boxed in near mint condition but the seller was asking a crazy price so i let it go.

You're perfectly right with the "not intended" collector status of big boxed games, they were just a "standard" in the old day that became "collector" due to the change in how games are packaged, their increasing rarity due to age... and our nostalgia

Since i only began collecting in the middle of august (2011), i'm still in a frenzy with what i buy, so i managed to get some really nice pieces of big boxes rather fast.

I stopped really fast tooo, to focus on CE's. All my big boxes are stocked, as i don't have space to display them, so i can't tell you everything i have, nor take any photo, but here is are some of the games i have:

- The Elder Scrolls Arena

- TES Daggerfall

- Sealed Mint Quake 2

- Sealed (but the plastic film is used) quake 1, but i got robbed, the guy sent me a low budget reedition. I'm too confident.

- Diablo 1, both US and FR versions

- MDK Special Edition

- Myst III collector edition (EU version, while US came with a figurine and i WANT it)

- Duke Nukem 3d "Duke it out in DC" expansion pack

- Civilization II Limited Edition

- Hexen II Mint Sealed

- Carmageddon, if i remember well its sealed too

- A really nice Tomb Raider 1 edition, the box is designed as a pyramid

- Final Fantasy VIII, a rather rare piece for PC. Box is damaged though.

- Baldur's Gate and its extension

And others


The game i just got is Omikron : The Nomad Soul. It came out in 1998 or 1999 (i'm hungry, and when i'm hungry i just can't think properly :p).

It was the first game of a then newly found french studio, and an herald of "the french touch" in the game industry, made in collaboration with David Bowie, who made the soundtrack and plays a character in the game.

You may know this studio well, as it recently developped a huge PS3 exclusive... Heavy Rain

The studio (Quantic Dreams), also made Farenheit. But Omikron is different than those 2 games, it mixed FPS view with adventure aspect, the possibility to control nearly any NPC in the city by possessing them, and some fights are played in a Street Fighter/ Tekken/ MK style! A really unique mix of genres at the time, and still now. So it may not appeal to everyone i think...

I can't say much more, as i never played the game^^ I had a Macintosh when it came out, and forgot to play it when i got a pc some years after.

When i'll have time and space, i'll take photos of my collection But i d'ont think it will come soon.

Enough writing! I am flooding my own thread :O